Useless Information! AKA Trivia that you cannot live without!

[girl_dee]

Did you know that this is Kenny Rogers???


'I Just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in)'



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Share YOUR useless information!

[A. Spectre]

Did YOU know radio call letters west of the Mississippi begin with the letter "K"? East of the Mississippi begin with the letter "W."

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In 1928, the Federal Radio Commission decided on a few rules that remain in effect to this day:

* all radio/TV call names were required to be four letters in length

* stations east of the Mississippi River were required to start their call names with ‘W’

* stations west of the Mississippi River were required to start their call names with ‘K’


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[girl_dee]

Did you know that Mick Jagger sang back up on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain?"

[Teddybear]

Did you know that weather in the US travels west to east except on the east coast where it can come in from the east and collide with storms from the west causing great havoc at times.

[Andrea]

Did you know that only about 30% of solitaire games are winnable no matter how you play them?

Thanks girl_dee. I love trivia.

[girl_dee]

Walt Disney had a fear of mice!

[Kätzchen]

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I didn't know it was Mae West, who joked around about being Snow White.

[girl_dee]

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I didn't know it was Mae West, who joked around about being Snow White.

Love it !!

[girl_dee]

Sex, eating, and music all release dopamine, the "pleasure chemical" in the brain.

JUST think if all done at one time!!! :blush:

[girl_dee]

Today is Madonna's 59th birthday

Madonna and Sean Penn were married on her birthday, 1989

https://todayinmadonnahistory.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/madonna-sean-penn-wedding-1.jpg

[homoe]

Mike Nichols’s first choice for the role of Benjamin Braddock was Robert Redford.

Dustin Hoffman got the role, a relatively unknown actor at that time!

[homoe]

August 16th is Kathie Lee Gifford's birthday! Her husband, the late great Jet's halfback Frank Gifford had the same birthdate as well :bday2:

[homoe]

Gloria Stuart was the only person who worked on the film who was actually living in 1912 when the Titanic sunk.

[homoe]

Angela Bassett turned down the role that ultimately led to Halle Berry being the first African-American woman to win a Best Actress Oscar.

[homoe]

Anne Hathaway was originally cast as Tiffany but due to scheduling conflicts she had to drop out, resulting in Jennifer Lawrence to get the role and nabbing the Best Actress Oscar in 2012.

[homoe]

"Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in morning, sailor's take warning." This quote is actually true.

The bright, red, pure colors at night mean that the air is clear to the west and will be good weather in the morning. A red sky in the morning means that good, high pressure weather has already passed meaning low pressure weather (storms) will be coming to the east.

[Kätzchen]

"Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in morning, sailor's take warning." This quote is actually true.

The bright, red, pure colors at night mean that the air is clear to the west and will be good weather in the morning. A red sky in the morning means that good, high pressure weather has already passed meaning low pressure weather (storms) will be coming to the east.

This is mY all time favorite saying..... ❤❤❤

:hk28:

[girl_dee]

Mike Nichols’s first choice for the role of Benjamin Braddock was Robert Redford.

Dustin Hoffman got the role, a relatively unknown actor at that time!

I just saw this the other day!

[homoe]

Sex, eating, and music all release dopamine, the "pleasure chemical" in the brain.

JUST think if all done at one time!!! :blush:

I think there was a Seinfeld episode where George tried to do all three, well except he might of been trying to listen to a baseball game instead of music!

[Esme nha Maire]

It's possible to walk on custard (provided it's custard made with cornflour)
evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN2D5y-AxIY

[girl_dee]

It's possible to walk on custard (provided it's custard made with cornflour)
evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN2D5y-AxIY

:|...............

[girl_dee]

Naming Thursday - Thor's Day. The English word Thursday is named after the Norse god of thunder, Thor. ... Thor is represented riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer. In most languages with Latin origins, the day is named after the god and planet Jupiter.


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[Gemme]

Left-handed folks live, on average, 7 years less than right-handed folks.

Bonus: Marilyn Monroe was a leftie.

[homoe]

At the nearest point, Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.


o 0 (perhaps Sarah Palin was right after all)

[homoe]

Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.:eyebat:

[homoe]

August 17th, 1969 was to be officially the final day of the Woodstock Music Festival billed as 3 days of peace and music near Bethel, N.Y. but ultimately it ran four days! On August 18th 11 additional acts performed!


Many believe it was the greatest gathering of 60's musicians and is still thought to be the greatest live concert ever staged.

[Bèsame*]

You can heal paper cuts immediately and stop the pain with Chapstick.

According to research, bilingual brains are better at ignoring distractions and are generally more efficient.

The. "Q" in Q-tip, stands for quality.

[homoe]

Left-handed folks live, on average, 7 years less than right-handed folks.

Bonus: Marilyn Monroe was a leftie.



James A. Garfield,Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman,Gerald Ford, Ronald Regan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama we also all lefties!

[homoe]

At least three presidents have been "ambidextrous," meaning they could use both hands to write.



James Garfield, Harry S. Truman, and Ronald Reagan. Reagan, in fact, was reported to be totally left handed; however, he was forced at an early age to switch, quite possibly because of the old beliefs that left handedness was a disability!

[girl_dee]

August 17th, 1969 was to be officially the final day of the Woodstock Music Festival billed as 3 days of peace and music near Bethel, N.Y. but ultimately it ran four days! On August 18th 11 additional acts performed!


Many believe it was the greatest gathering of 60's musicians and is still thought to be the greatest live concert ever staged.



The last act was Jimi Hendrix, here's a video of him playing to the aftermath of Woodstock. Check out the people trying to find shoes!

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[Gemme]

Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.:eyebat:

Not true! Pigs have sex for pleasure and can sustain orgasms for up to half an hour. Also, some other primates do as well. They're animals! *rawr*

Killer whales are actually a species of dolphin and they are very, very smart, especially in hunting strategies.

[ksrainbow]

Why is the nickname for Kansas the Sunflower State?
Inspired by this, George Morehouse filed legislation to make the Sunflower the state's official floral emblem. In 1903, the wild Sunflower became the official state flower of Kansas. (Interestingly, less than a decade earlier, lawmakers had unsuccessfully called for the eradication of the “noxious weed.”)Dec 10, 2015

[Gráinne]

The last act was Jimi Hendrix, here's a video of him playing to the aftermath of Woodstock. Check out the people trying to find shoes!

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And just for my useless information, the organizers of Woodstock tried to get Roy Rogers to sing "Happy Trails" after Jimi's set. He declined.

Oh, well-The reason natural gas has a rotten egg smell is that the smell (hydrogen sulfide) is added. In 1937 a school in oil-booming New London, Texas developed a gas leak. Gas filled the walls of the school but it had no scent. A shop teacher threw a switch, the school blew up, and 300+ students and teachers died. Now that smell alerts us to leaks.

[girl_dee]

Oh, well-The reason natural gas has a rotten egg smell is that the smell (hydrogen sulfide) is added. In 1937 a school in oil-booming New London, Texas developed a gas leak. Gas filled the walls of the school but it had no scent. A shop teacher threw a switch, the school blew up, and 300+ students and teachers died. Now that smell alerts us to leaks.

i had no idea. this is useFUL information!

[homoe]

Not true! Pigs have sex for pleasure and can sustain orgasms for up to half an hour. Also, some other primates do as well. They're animals! *rawr*

Killer whales are actually a species of dolphin and they are very, very smart, especially in hunting strategies.

Hoping if there really is such a thing as reincarnation, that I come back as a pig.:praying:

[girl_dee]

Why not come back as a Hyena? except for that childbirth thing...:|.



Female hyenas wear the pants in the family. They're bigger and stronger than the males. And definitely much more aggressive. Heck, they even got balls. Really.

A female hyena has a pseudopenis, basically an enlarged clitoris, that they can erect at will. To mate, the meeker male has to insert his penis into her pseudopenis. That's difficult for the males, but still nothing compared to the female having to give birth through a penis!

[Gemme]

Why not come back as a Hyena? except for that childbirth thing...:|.



Female hyenas wear the pants in the family. They're bigger and stronger than the males. And definitely much more aggressive. Heck, they even got balls. Really.

A female hyena has a pseudopenis, basically an enlarged clitoris, that they can erect at will. To mate, the meeker male has to insert his penis into her pseudopenis. That's difficult for the males, but still nothing compared to the female having to give birth through a penis!

Whoopi Goldberg made the best hyena!

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[girl_dee]

Lion King Trivia!


HIDDEN MICKEY: (at around 46 mins) One of the bugs that Timon pulls out of a knothole during Hakuna Matata is wearing Mickey Mouse ears. When Mufasa tells Simba about the Great Kings of the Past if you look at the stars in the wide shot you can see Mickey Mouse.

[akiza]

since 3 billions of years the quantity of water on earth hasn't changed

[Gemme]

The average adult farts 14 times a day.

[girl_dee]

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum

[girl_dee]

I just heard this :


Only the female mosquitos bite

They prefer to bite people who:

Have type O blood
Wearing dark colors
Are pregnant
People who have an elevated body temp/sweat
Who consume beer

[girl_dee]

2000 - The first season finale of the reality show "Survivor" aired on CBS, with contestant Richard Hatch winning the $1 million prize.





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[Kätzchen]

It has been..... 2315 days ..... since I have played my favorite card game in the arcade.

(which last occurred @ 4:40:44 pm Pacific Pearly Skies Time) :giggle: :balloon: :eyebat:

[girl_dee]

On this day in 1835, the first in a series of six articles announcing the supposed discovery of life on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper.

Known collectively as “The Great Moon Hoax,” the articles were supposedly reprinted from the Edinburgh Journal of Science. The byline was Dr. Andrew Grant, described as a colleague of Sir John Herschel, a famous astronomer of the day. Herschel had in fact traveled to Capetown, South Africa, in January 1834 to set up an observatory with a powerful new telescope. As Grant described it, Herschel had found evidence of life forms on the moon, including such fantastic animals as unicorns, two-legged beavers and furry, winged humanoids resembling bats. The articles also offered vivid description of the moon’s geography, complete with massive craters, enormous amethyst crystals, rushing rivers and lush vegetation.

The New York Sun, founded in 1833, was one of the new “penny press” papers that appealed to a wider audience with a cheaper price and a more narrative style of journalism. From the day the first moon hoax article was released, sales of the paper shot up considerably. It was exciting stuff, and readers lapped it up. The only problem was that none of it was true. The Edinburgh Journal of Science had stopped publication years earlier, and Grant was a fictional character. The articles were most likely written by Richard Adams Locke, a Sun reporter educated at Cambridge University. Intended as satire, they were designed to poke fun at earlier, serious speculations about extraterrestrial life, particularly those of Reverend Thomas Dick, a popular science writer who claimed in his bestselling books that the moon alone had 4.2 billion inhabitants.

Readers were completely taken in by the story, however, and failed to recognize it as satire. The craze over Herschel’s supposed discoveries even fooled a committee of Yale University scientists, who traveled to New York in search of the Edinburgh Journal articles. After Sun employees sent them back and forth between the printing and editorial offices, hoping to discourage them, the scientists returned to New Haven without realizing they had been tricked.

On September 16, 1835, the Sun admitted the articles had been a hoax. People were generally amused by the whole thing, and sales of the paper didn’t suffer. The Sun continued operation until 1950, when it merged with the New York World-Telegram. The merger folded in 1967. A new New York Sun newspaper was founded in 2002, but it has no relation to the original.

[girl_dee]

Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird

[girl_dee]

The dot over a "j" or an "i" is called a "tittle."

[homoe]

Flugelbinder is actually a fictitious word originated in the movie "Cocktail", during a discussion about the ordinary objects that can turn their inventors into millionaires.

[girl_dee]

this is how cashews grow.

http://balconygardenweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cashew-nut-growing_mini.jpg

[girl_dee]

This is how pineapples grow

http://8misc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/how-do-pineapples-grow-produced-.jpg

[Esme nha Maire]

Hedy Lamarr, best known for being an actress, was also an inventor of note. Amongst her inventions werean improved traffic light, tablets to turn a glass of water into a carbonated drink, more efficient wings for Howard Hughes' aircraft, and a frequency-hopping system for radio-controlled torpedos during WW2. This latter design was not implemented by the US Navy at the time, but an improved version was in 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis.

[Gayandgray]

The Richard Simmons Clubhouse (weight loss forums) is now FREE to join. There used to be a monthly fee.:hangloose::hangloose:

[girl_dee]

A female ferret will die if she doesn’t have sex for a year.

[Gemme]

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.

[girl_dee]

On this day in 1978, boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans to win the world heavyweight boxing title for the third time in his career, the first fighter ever to do so. Following his victory, Ali retired from boxing, only to make a brief comeback two years later. Ali, who once claimed he could “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,” left the sport permanently in 1981.

[Gemme]

'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

[Femmewench]

A female ferret will die if she doesn’t have sex for a year.

I am not a ferret. I am not a ferret. I am so grateful I am not a ferret.

[Mel C.]

Rosie Grier, former NFL star, authored a book about needlepoint for men.

[C0LLETTE]

I'd put gossip about "who is screwing who" right at the top.

[girl_dee]

NASA had to rename the sizes of the apparatus used for male astronauts to pee, from small, medium, and large, to large, gigantic, and humongous, because no one was willing to pick their true size.

[Orema]

"Jay" used to be slang for "foolish person." So when a pedestrian ignored street signs, he was referred to as a "jaywalker."

[cathexis]

In the past, there was a law in New Orleans making it illegal to tie your alligator to a fire hydrant.

(would love to know the backstory on this one!)

[Orema]

Stop signs were yellow until 1954.

[Orema]

If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the color you'll see is called 'eigengrau.'

[girl_dee]

A whale's penis is called a dork

[girl_dee]

(for my gay boi.....)


A South Korean movie theater owner decided that the movie The Sound of Music was too long. His solution? He shortened the movie by cutting out all of the musical scenes

[girl_dee]

Hefner has admitted to experimenting with homosexuality in the past. One evening in Chicago, a man offered to give Hefner fellatio, and Hefner agreed


In high school, Hefner was popular and voted as one of the students most likely to succeed

Friends and family lent Hefner $8,000 to start Playboy.

[girl_dee]

Flights are 33% cheaper on Friday the 13th

[girl_dee]

-Friggatriskaidekaphobia is when someone is afraid of Friday the 13th. Nearly 20 million Americans are affected by friggatriskaidekaphobia. It’s also called paraskavedekatriaphobia.

[girl_dee]

A 13th guest at a table is considered unlucky, and in Paris sometimes a quatorzieme is hired to be a professional 14th guest and balance out the luck.

[C0LLETTE]

The Canada Revenue Agency has ruled that a "therapeutic iguana" is not a legitimate tax deduction.

[girl_dee]

You can get a rough estimate of the temperature by counting the number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, then adding 37.

[girl_dee]

This song is about female masturbation.


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She Bop - Cyndi Lauper

Wehell I see them every night in tight blue jeans
In the pages of a Blue Boy magazine
Hey I've been thinking of a new sensation
I'm picking up good vibration
Ooh she bop, she bop

Do I want to go out with a lion's roar
Huh, yea, I want to go south and get me some more
Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine
They say I better stop or I'll go blind
Ooh she bop, she bop

She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu bop
I hope he will understand
She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu she bop
Ohh ohh she do she bop

Hey, hey they say I better get a chaperone
Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
Hey, I won't worry, and I won't fret
Ain't no law against it yet, oh she bop, she bop

She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu bop
I hope he will understand
She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu she bop
Ohh ohh she do she bop

She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu bop
I hope he will understand
She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu she bop
Ohh ohh she did it she bop
Ohh ohh she did it she bop

[Gemme]

This song is about female masturbation.


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She Bop - Cyndi Lauper

Wehell I see them every night in tight blue jeans
In the pages of a Blue Boy magazine
Hey I've been thinking of a new sensation
I'm picking up good vibration
Ooh she bop, she bop

Do I want to go out with a lion's roar
Huh, yea, I want to go south and get me some more
Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine
They say I better stop or I'll go blind
Ooh she bop, she bop

She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu bop
I hope he will understand
She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu she bop
Ohh ohh she do she bop

Hey, hey they say I better get a chaperone
Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
Hey, I won't worry, and I won't fret
Ain't no law against it yet, oh she bop, she bop

She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu bop
I hope he will understand
She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu she bop
Ohh ohh she do she bop

She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu bop
I hope he will understand
She bop he bop and we bop
I bop you bop and they bop
Be bop be bop a lu she bop
Ohh ohh she did it she bop
Ohh ohh she did it she bop

And so is this one.

Hailee Steinfield "Love Myself"

Yeah
When I get chills at night
I feel it deep inside without you, yeah
Know how to satisfy
Keeping that tempo right without you, yeah
Pictures in my mind on replay
I'm gonna touch the pain away
I know how to scream my own name
Scream my name

Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(Hey)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(I love me)
Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Anytime, day or night
(I love me)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(Hey)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(I love me)
Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Anytime that I like
(I love me)

I'll take it nice and slow
Feeling good on my own without you, yeah
Got me speaking in tongues
The beautiful, it comes without you, yeah
I'm gonna put my body first
And love me so hard 'til it hurts
I know how to scream out the words
Scream the words

Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(Hey)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(I love me)
Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Anytime, day or night
(I love me)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(Hey)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(I love me)
Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Anytime that I like
(I love me)

Ah, la la la, la la la la la
Ah, la la la, la la la la la
Ah, la la la, la la la la la
Anytime that I like
(I love)

I know how to scream my own name
Scream my name

Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(Hey)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(I love me)
Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Anytime, day or night
(I love me)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
(Hey)
Gonna love myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Can't help myself, no, I don't need anybody else
Anytime that I like
(I love me)

Ah, la la la, la la la la la
Ah, la la la, la la la la la
Ah, la la la, la la la la la
Anytime that I like
(I love me)

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[girl_dee]

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with

[girl_dee]

Today is Thursday, Dec. 14, the 348th day of 2017. There are 17 days left in the year.


In 1799, George Washington, died at his Mount Vernon, Virginia, home at age 67.

In 1819, Alabama joined the Union as the 22nd state.

In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first men to reach the South Pole, beating out a British expedition led by Robert F. Scott.

[homoe]

Jean Paul Getty III, the grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, five months after his kidnapping by an Italian gang. J. Paul Getty, had initially refused to pay his 16-year-old grandson’s $17 million ransom but finally agreed to cooperate after the boy’s severed right ear was sent to a newspaper in Rome. He eventually secured his grandson’s release by paying just $2.7 million.

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This movie that opens on Dec 22nd is based on this event

[girl_dee]

Hollywood
1977
Saturday Night Fever turns John Travolta into movie star
On this day in 1977, Saturday Night Fever, a movie that ignites the disco dance craze across America, along with the movie career of its star, John Travolta, opens in theaters. Travolta earned a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his performance as 19-year-old Tony Manero

[Orema]

Although her claim to fame was as the subject of The Miracle Worker, Helen Keller had a second career: as a socialist activist and organizer. Keller advocated for rights of the differently abled, women’s suffrage and birth control and was a noted pacifist. The radical thinker was also an opponent of Woodrow Wilson (who was against universal suffrage) and supported Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs in his presidential runs. Because of her impairments, the media universally discredited her organizing work. A Brooklyn publication wrote that Keller’s socialist “mistakes sprung out of the manifest limitations of her development.”

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s real first and middle name weren’t Martin Luther. His first name, like his father’s, was Michael. The Michael Kings changed their chosen names following a 1934 trip to Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin. It was during this time he chose to be called Martin Luther King in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther. King's parents were both African-American, and he also had Irish ancestry through his paternal great-grandfather.

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When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, it wasn’t her first altercation with that bus driver. Parks had been ejected by the same driver 12 years earlier for refusing to board in the back of the bus after she had already paid up front.

[homoe]

December 19th 1922... Theresa Vaughn, 24, confesses in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries!

[girl_dee]

Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920's.

[girl_dee]

Pat Benatar is 65 today :|
Don Fagen (Steely Dan) is 70. :|

[charley]

never cook bacon unless you are wearing clothing!
:canadian:

[cathexis]

A florescent light buzzes at a very high frequency which drives some people half mad, but most people don't hear it at all.

[girl_dee]

A florescent light buzzes at a very high frequency which drives some people half mad, but most people don't hear it at all.

Yes and I think this causes headaches

[girl_dee]

never cook bacon unless you are wearing clothing!
:canadian:

I know there is a story here .... we’ll save it for chat :cheesy:

[Femmewench]

I'm sure this is going to be an answer on Jeopardy one day.

This is the only US state to include USA on its license plates.

What is New Mexico?


Lest we be confused with Mexico.

[cathexis]

A 13th guest at a table is considered unlucky, and in Paris sometimes a quatorzieme is hired to be a professional 14th guest and balance out the luck.

Forgot about this. Some buildings, especially older ones, are constructed with no floor being referred to as the 13th floor. The buttons on the elevator may be numbered so that there is a 12th floor button then one for the 14th floor.

[homoe]

never cook bacon unless you are wearing clothing!
:canadian:

SO true........................:hangloose:

[girl_dee]

Dolly Parton is 77 today!



In 1996, scientists named the world's first cloned mammal -- a sheep -- after Dolly Parton. When asked about the name choice, Scientist Ian Wilmut said, "Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell, and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's.”

Parton has been married to asphalt-paving business owner Carl Dean since May 30, 1966. She admits to staying faithful despite calling herself a flirt. "He knows I'm a flirt and a tease but it's harmless," said Parton. "I've never met the man that would take his place.

Dolly’s birth was paid for with a sack of oatmeal


Her family -- which included 11 siblings, herself the fourth -- was extremely poor when she was growing up in the backwoods of Tennessee's Great Smokey Mountains. "You know they always talk about two rooms and a bath? We had two rooms and a path. We'd have running water when we'd run to get it," Parton said. "We didn't have any electricity ... if fireflies were out, we'd catch them in a mason jar and put them in our bedroom!”

She once lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest. "I just over-exaggerated my look and went in and just walked up on stage. I didn't win. I didn't even come in close, I don't think," she said.

She refused to sell Elvis Presley the publishing rights to her hit 'I Will Always Love You.' Elvis' manager called Parton the day before the recording session and told her that he and Presley wouldn't record any songs that they didn't have at least half of the publishing rights to. "It had nothing to do with Elvis, because hopefully he was disappointed too, but I just wouldn't let him have the publishing," said Parton.

Since she was 7-years-old, Parton has written approximately 5,000 songs. Parton considers herself a writer first and foremost -- singing has always come second. According to her website, Parton writes a song every two or three days, and she always makes time to write on her birthday. She wrote her first song about her corn-cob doll. She was not able to write yet, so her mother had to copy the lyrics for her.

[girl_dee]

1998 - President Clinton goes on national TV and states, "I want you to listen to me, I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”

1784 - Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing his disapproval of the eagle as our nation's symbol. He preferred the turkey.

1892- Bessie Coleman born d. 1926 American daredevil aviator. She was the world's first black female aviator to obtain a pilot's license (1921). Her father was of mostly Cherokee descent, making her also the first female of native American descent to earn a pilot's license. U.S. pilot schools were unwilling to take a black female student, so she learned French and went to Paris to earn her license. She died in a plane crash while preparing for a show. While flying as a passenger with a student pilot, the plane suffered a mechanical failure and spun out of control. Not seat belted in, she fell out of the plane and plummeted to her death. The pilot died in the crash.


RIP Ms Coleman! https://236izu11yygk2uo6po3yerii7d6-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Bessie_Coleman_First_African_American_Pilot_-_GPN-2004-00027-350x350.jpg

[girl_dee]

The First Social Security Beneficiary

the first Social Security check, check number 00-000-001, was issued to Ida May Fuller in the amount of $22.54 and dated January 31, 1940.



Ida May Fuller was the first beneficiary of recurring monthly Social Security payments. Miss Fuller (known as Aunt Ida to her friends and family) was born on September 6, 1874 on a farm outside of Ludlow, Vermont. She attended school in Rutland, Vermont where one of her classmates was Calvin Coolidge. In 1905, after working as a school teacher, she became a legal secretary. One of the partners in the firm, John G. Sargent, would later become Attorney General in the Coolidge Administration.

Ida May never married and had no children. She lived alone most of her life, but spent eight years near the end of her life living with her niece, Hazel Perkins, and her family in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Miss Fuller filed her retirement claim on November 4, 1939, having worked under Social Security for a little short of three years. While running an errand she dropped by the Rutland Social Security office to ask about possible benefits. She would later observe: "It wasn't that I expected anything, mind you, but I knew I'd been paying for something called Social Security and I wanted to ask the people in Rutland about it."

Her claim was taken by Claims Clerk, Elizabeth Corcoran Burke, and transmitted to the Claims Division in Washington, D.C. for adjudication. The case was adjudicated and reviewed and sent to the Treasury Department for payment in January 1940. The claims were grouped in batches of 1,000 and a Certification List for each batch was sent to Treasury. Miss Fuller's claim was the first one on the first Certification List and so the first Social Security check, check number 00-000-001, was issued to Ida May Fuller in the amount of $22.54 and dated January 31, 1940.

[girl_dee]

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.


This happens to me a lot, and i think more as we get older!

[VintageFemme]

Forgot about this. Some buildings, especially older ones, are constructed with no floor being referred to as the 13th floor. The buttons on the elevator may be numbered so that there is a 12th floor button then one for the 14th floor.

The building I work in, is like this with 20 floors. It does not list a 13th floor on the elevator buttons. The building is less than ten years old.

[Tovah]

The velociraptor screech from Jurassic Park was a recording of tortoises having sex.

[girl_dee]

The velociraptor screech from Jurassic Park was a recording of tortoises having sex.

:cracked: ,,,,,,,,,

[girl_dee]

Chewbacca's voice was created by the original films' sound designer, Ben Burtt, from recordings of walruses, lions, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers, and badgers in Burtt's personal menagerie. The individual recordings were mixed at different ratios for Chewbacca's different utterances.

[girl_dee]

a group of pugs is called a grumble.


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[Femmewench]

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.


This happens to me a lot, and i think more as we get older!

Well now I can stop calling it the gift of menopause.

[girl_dee]

The actual quote is from Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar (1599). The warning is uttered by a soothsayer who is letting Roman leader Julius Caesar know that his life is in danger, and he should probably stay home and be careful when March 15th, the Ides of March, rolls around.

[Kätzchen]

I've been so tired lately from seeing T***P dominated news page coverage of their cry-baby temper-tantrums and chest thumping strategic lies behavior, that I went in search of Journalists who have contributed greatly to society.

So I spent the day yesterday, studying the life of Calvin Trillin.

Here's what I learned, after watching Johnny Carson interview Calvin Trillin, on JC's late night show, The Tonight Show:

Calvin Trillin married his wife by the same last name (Alice Stewart Trillin) back in 1965.... and Calvin's wife died on the day of the Nine-Eleven NYC Trade Tower attacks (source: Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Trillin)).

Alice led an equally fulfilling life, like Calvin: She is best known for her work with cancer patients and for creating educational programming for underserved children and women.


At Alice's funeral service, Nora Ephron (of "When Harry Met Sally" fame) described the people under Trillin's protection as "anyone she loved, or liked, or knew, or didn’t quite know but knew someone who did, or didn’t know from a hole in a wall but had just gotten a telephone call from because they’d found the number in the telephone book" (source: Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Stewart_Trillin))


For an partial list of Calvin Trillin's best known covered subject of literary interest, here's an interesting list of some of his better known works, as archived by The New York Times (LINK (https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/calvin-trillin)).

Here's the video of the Johnny Carson episode, back in November of 1988, that inspired me to research the life of Calvin Trillin:

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[girl_dee]

The first known candy cane was made in 1670 by a German choirmaster to help children endure lengthy nativity services. They were white and modeled after shepherds’ canes. The candy cane made its way to America in 1847, when a German immigrant decorated the tree in his Ohio home with the iconic candy.

[girl_dee]

Christmas trees first made an appearance with the ancient Egyptians and Romans. They used them to mark the winter solstice. The evergreens served as a reminder of the green plants that would come in the spring. However, it wasn’t until Prince Albert and his wife Queen Victoria of England appeared in a drawing in the Illustrated London News in 1848 that the tradition took off.

[ksrainbow]

Largest ball of twine

In Cawker City, officials have on display the largest ball of Sisal twine and it continues to grow ever year. Recently listed as being around 7,974,454 feet of Sisal twine rolled into a gigantic ball. A local farmer Frank Stoeber began winding his Sisal twine in 1953 and both locals and visitors continue the winding to this day.

I wrapped a few twines myself!

Ks-

[C0LLETTE]

Did YOU know radio call letters west of the Mississippi begin with the letter "K"? East of the Mississippi begin with the letter "W."

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In 1928, the Federal Radio Commission decided on a few rules that remain in effect to this day:

* all radio/TV call names were required to be four letters in length

* stations east of the Mississippi River were required to start their call names with ‘W’

* stations west of the Mississippi River were required to start their call names with ‘K’


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No I didn't know this and it's really interesting.

DYK that Trump's grandfather had to flee Germany to dodge the military draft; ran brothels in Seattle and New York; and was never "Swedish".

[Bèsame*]

I found this out this morning...

How thin is a lightning bolt???

The width of a thumb and hotter than the sun
While the intensity of a lightning strike can make them appear as thick bolts across the sky, the actual width of a lightning bolt is only about 2-3 cm.,

[cathexis]

No I didn't know this and it's really interesting.

DYK that Trump's grandfather had to flee Germany to dodge the military draft, ran brothels in Seattle and New York, and was never "Swedish."

Were radio and TV stations that only had three letters in their call sign "grand-fathered" in that 1928 ruling?
We have WLS and 6+ others. They're primarily radio stations, but some are television.